Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-01
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rem. She is his eighth wife.
! 1t has become practice among the
colored people of New York to insure
the lives of their children in favor OF
the mother.
A Broadway hotel clerk says he is
presented with 81, 800 worth of cloth
ing every year by store to which he
''steers" customers.
Preliminary arrangements have been
entered into to establish a large man
ufactory in Phoenix, Arizona, to make
| sugar from sorghum.
| There is a movement on foot to form
press association, to be composed of
the newspaper men of Manitoba and
| the northwest, outside of Winnipeg.
A white horse in Michigan is attract
| ing attention without the aid of red
| headed girls. He visits saloon every
day for his glass of beer, and gets it.
A 100000 contract for the con-
struction of custom-house, stores,
and mole at Puerto Cabello, Vene-
zuela, has been secured by an Ameri-
can firm.
The Iowa Wesleyan university of
Mount Pleasant will soon sport mill
tary company among its other socie-
ties. A drillmaster from West Point
has been promised.
Side saddles are slowly going out of
fashion in England, and the man
fashion way of riding horses is being
adopted by many of the ladies. Side
saddles have been in use since 1883.
In his valedictory the retiring edi-
tor and proprietor of Nevada journal
says. Thanking an overindulgent
public for not having mobbed me
long since, | am sincerely theirs to
serve" etc.
Mrs. Jesse James, the wife of the
noted outlaw, has been employed for
some time as ''clerk" in a shooting
gallery in Cairo, but has recently lost
her position as she did not draw Gus
tom as expected.
An American is at the Corean capt.
tai trying to get contract to lay down
a tramway between Chemulpo and
Seoul. Chemulpo is the port for Seoul,
the distance between the two towns
being about 80 miles.
An entire class of eighteen law stu
dents passed a successful examination
at Salem, Oregon, recently, and were
admitted to the bar. Miss Howard,
young lady student, passed quite as
creditably as the young men.
It is reported that in Brown county,
H., there is a man IS years old
who never saw piano, never was
fl,Iya fn Loo of i1yryo
| wore collar, and never had on pair
of socks since he can remember.
At Lexington, Ga, in his opening
PRAYER at a colored school exhibition
darky preacher expressed the hope
that all ode small boys will grow up
| to be useful and educated men, like
Rebecca and Elizabeth in de bible"
The largest book ever bound is
owned by Queen Victoria, and meas
ures eighteen inches across the back
and weighs thirty pounds. 1t contains
the jubilee address of congratulation
from members of the Primrose league.
The Western Union company cabed
| to London the times at which the
yachts in the recent race passed Sandy
Hook point in seventy seconds-tele-
| graphic speed which has never before
been equaled in actual business work
| ing.
| Timothy Bacon. of Barre, Mass, is
| 101 years old. He was born at Natick,
November, 1856. He is in good health
and can walk mile. He occasionally
attends religious revival meetings near
his home, and takes a fervent part in
| the services.
It is now asserted that hay fever is
not produced by pollen, but by minute
organisms floating in the atmosphere
On the hypothesis that these creatures
nave intelligence it is possible to I'M
derstand how the highly intellectual
are selected as hay-fever victims.
They have just put up an epitaph In
one of the London cemeteries which
equals in pith and exactitude anything
of the olden time. Over the grave of
a dentist there run the following
lines:
View this gravesto with all gravity,
j is filing his last cavity
A man must have good-sized bank
account if he wishes to reside In Pasa-
| dena, Cal. House rent is enormous,
and the Star SAYS that a room that
was leased for $40 per month was sub
leased for $40, then subdivided at $45
per quarter, or $50 for the room.
1t is curious feature of the Aztec
houses which still exist in New Mexico
| that the rooms have no windows, save
two little square pore holes, and there
are no doors on the inside opening
from room to room. Many rooms are
sealed up for some unknown reason.
High license is working satisfactory
ly to all parties in Arlington, Ga. 1t
fixed the whisky license at $500, and
two men at once paid $1,000 into the
treasury. Of this $1,000 will be used in
building a school house, and the town
feels rich with it's balance of 5000 in
/ bank.
1t is said that the English co-opera-
tives have bank whose transactions
amount to $S0,000,000 year. They
have l. 400 stores and do business of